Fairly or not, each president was judged by how much prosperity is delivered on his watch.
The second postwar dollar order, which has spawned so much prosperity, appears to be at a close on the Fed's historic mistake.
Fifty years of European and American aid have not succeeded in bringing much prosperity to Africa and other poor but resource-rich places.
Twice as many opportunities for business, twice as much prosperity, and the biggest expansion of middle class incomes and jobs the world has ever seen.
Others argue that, for all the degradation of slavery, without it slaves' descendants would not now be enjoying much higher prosperity in America than they would experience in their ancestors' homeland.
We allowed too much of our prosperity to be based on fleeting bubbles of consumption and risk and artificial gain.
But the hard part is knowing how much an asset-price rally is rooted in genuinely rising prosperity and how much in government policies that can't last.
But what is threatened by uncontrolled vehicle usage is not prosperity so much as lifestyle.
True prosperity has much more to do with human experience than numbers on a balance sheet.
If Americans feel prosperous, they can hardly tell pollsters that they disapprove of the way the president is handling his responsibilities, even if they doubt whether prosperity is much affected by what presidents do.
Prosperity comes as much from destroying jobs as creating them.
As the fastest-growing region in the world, the Asia Pacific will shape so much of our security and prosperity in the century ahead, and it is critical to creating jobs and opportunity for the American people.
Despite the fact that we are in the midst of a sharp left turn U.S. stocks and bonds are currently at valuations consistent with times in our history when our culture and policies were much friendlier to economic growth and prosperity.
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Racial appeals often win votes, but discrimination, positive or otherwise, rarely does much for race relations, or for prosperity.
"If properly harnessed to unleash their full potential, these trends hold the promise of more growth, much less poverty, and accelerating shared prosperity for African countries in the foreseeable future, " said World Bank economist, Punam Chuhan-Pole.
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That prosperity did not change us as much as education could: there lies the true misery of it.
The great American prosperity of the late 20th century owes much to the highly increased participation of women in the work force.
It needs to stop and the new team in the Wales Office - of which I am one - have pledged to work much more closely with the Welsh Government to deliver prosperity for Wales.
It is a testimony to the strength of the transatlantic alliance, a testimony to the effectiveness of NATO in creating stability and peace and prosperity, laying the groundwork for so much that has taken place over the last several years.
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He has staked much on the bet that Britain's path to prosperity lies in making London the world's centre for financial wheeling and dealing, and will be reluctant to do anything to send its denizens packing.
We also discussed the potential to expand our cooperation on behalf of economic growth, trade and investment, as well as technological innovation, and I look forward to discussing these issues further when President Medvedev visits the United States later this year, because there is much we can do on behalf of our security and prosperity if we continue to work together.
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U.S. companies beginning to get into the mix in Burma, which we think is good for our own economy, but also is also going to be good for the development of a private sector within Burma that can create a broader base of prosperity in a country where the government controlled so much of the economy in the past.
But they have to stay small, and thus contribute much less than they might otherwise do to a country's prosperity.
The great American prosperity of the latter part of the 20th century owes much to the increased participation of women in the work force.
How much does the present-day global liquidity glut owe to rising global prosperity and savings?
The United States owes much to its commanding lead in scientific research, including technological advancement, prosperity and security.
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Deleveraging is necessary after a borrowing binge of the sort that took place in the UK, US and much of western Europe in the years before the crash, but it can savagely undermine prosperity if it happens too fast.
As in much of South-East Asia, Malaysians had hitherto seemed to accept limited political rights in return for rapid prosperity.
Unfortunately, that prosperity could not be sustained during the 19th century, when the lands grew less fertile, and much of the population left for more profitable fields.
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